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Spinning effortlessly and naturally

In our new video with Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez, shares the knowledge that she began storing up when she was only eight years old, tending sheep on the slopes around her native Chinchero, Peru, with Linda.
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Published May 17, 2013 6:00 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: handwoven, Plying, Natural Dyes, Dyeing, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Handspun, Spinning, Dyeing Yarn
The secrets to Orenburg spinning revealed

Linda shares her textile adventures in Mongolia and how they prepared her for her latest project learning about Orenburg spinning.
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Published Mar 14, 2012 6:00 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Plying, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Spinning
What do you want to see next?

Read about the fun and adventure Linda has making spinning videos.
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Published Mar 30, 2011 6:00 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Spinning Wheels, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Spinning Cotton, Spinning
How many people does it take to fix a spinning wheel?

Do you know your wheel? Linda has been learning a lot more about hers.
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Published Mar 2, 2011 6:00 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Plying, Spinning Wheels, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Spinning
A stash-busting resolution

Linda hopes 2011 will be the year she really spins cotton.
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Published Jan 25, 2011 11:00 PM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Spinning Fiber, Spinning Wheels, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Spinning Cotton, Handspun, Spinning
Spinning Together, Back in the Day

I was cleaning out some piles of stuff in my office the other day (I will say right up front, I probably win the prize for piles), and ran across an oooold copy of Spin-Off advertising our very first Spin-Off Autumn Retreat . That's what we called...

Published Jul 7, 2010 8:34 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Plying, SOAR, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Handspun, Spin-Off Magazine, Spinning
Tips in Motion

What I love about spinning is the generosity of the process. Spinning is not like making TNT, where the steps and proportions have to be perfectly precise (or else), or like computer programming, where every step has to be in logical order. With spinning...

Published Mar 3, 2010 10:32 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Plying, Wool Processing, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Spinning Wool, Merino Wool, Spinning
Popular Wheel Mechanics, The DVD

I taught myself to spin in 1971. I didn't have a book. I'm not sure I'd ever even watched anybody spin on a wheel. I did have a 15-minute tutorial on using a drop spindle (emphasis on "drop"). My wheel was an old upright Swiss table...

Published Feb 17, 2010 9:50 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: How To Spin, Spinning Wheels, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Spinning
Every Day's a Holiday!

Or: why spinners need their own special calendar Old hippies have their own special calendar (so they can find out on what day "A Whiter Shade of Pale" hit the top of the charts). Mathematicians have their own calendar (in case they need a reminder...

Published Aug 19, 2009 8:21 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Spin-Off Magazine
Meanwhile, back in Guatemala . . .

I can hardly believe it’s been four months since I was there. But I’ve had that trip on my mind a lot, and for good reason. Spin-Off is planning to publish a wall calendar for 2010, photography is happening today, and a beautiful supported...

Published Jun 18, 2009 12:55 PM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Spinning Fiber, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Spinning Cotton, Handspun, Spin-Off Magazine
Spinimation—The Maggie and Eunny Show

I’ve rattled on for years about how hard it is to put spinning instruction in print. It’s such a dynamic, process-intensive craft—so hard to capture in one-shot increments. For all my carrying on, though, I think we’ve done a pretty...

Published Jun 3, 2009 8:50 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Worsted, Plying, How To Spin, Wool Processing, Spinning Wheels, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Spinning Wool, Merino Wool, Spin-Off Magazine, Types of Yarn, Spinning
All About Fiber

When we learned that 2009 was to be the United Nations’ Year of Natural Fiber , our first thought was, “Wow! What can we do that’s really special?” Our second thought was, “Wait a minute—we’re about natural fiber...

Published May 27, 2009 12:58 PM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: handwoven, Plying, Natural Fiber, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Handspun, Spinning Silk, Types of Yarn, Spinning, Processing Fiber
Heading To Peru

The last time I was in Peru – last year, in fact – I saw a spinner in one of the villages, and I just can’t get her out of my mind. It was early morning in Chinchero, near Cusco. The streets were still empty and quiet, the roosters still...

Published Apr 29, 2009 9:00 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Spinning Wheels, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle
Goodbye, spindle spinning

Last post, I was asking the world at large whether men of the Guatemalan highlands still spin wool on drop spindles, as they did when Olive and Harry Linder visited there in the late 1970s. Having spent several days chasing the answer, I have to say it’s...

Published Feb 18, 2009 1:16 PM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: handwoven, Spinning Fiber, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Spinning Cotton, Handspun, Spinning Wool, Spinning
Tossing spindles

I was looking back, waaay back, the other day, at the second issue of Spin-Off (Fall 1978). This popped out at me: a short article written by Harry and Olive Linder, one of the shining lights and great teachers of the spinning community back in the day...

Published Jan 22, 2009 2:28 PM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Wool Processing, Spinning Wheels, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Handspun, Spinning Wool, Merino Wool, Spin-Off Magazine, How-To, Spinning

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